Metadata/workflow description not visible when workflow is deployed on KNIME Server

KNIME Server
1

Dear

I have some metadata visible in my ‘KNIME AP’ 5.3.3

image
image1619×968 163 KB

which is not visible when deployed on ‘KNIME Server’ 4.17.1:

image
image1514×723 36.9 KB

Anybody having the same issue?

Kind Regads
Yves

ps: we did not have that issue on KNIME Server 4.16 (we recenlty migrated)

2

Hi Yves,

Thank you for reporting this issue together with client and server versions – something does seem off.
I haven’t reproduced the exact issue, but in my case, formatting is not applied correctly:
image

Would you by any chance have a dummy workflow that reproduces your issue (no description at all) that you can share?

In any case, we will open a discussion with development and continue investigating.

Kind regards
Marvin

3

Hi Marvin

Not sure what you mean with ‘reproduce’ (no description at all)?
I created a dummy workflow ‘test_metadata’:

image
image1238×730 73 KB

In KNIME Server you can see the description at the start page (as also shown in your example):

image
image846×179 12.1 KB

Opening the workflow only shown the ‘tags’, the metadata/description is gone:

image
image1170×561 23 KB

Please find attached the dummy workflow.

Kind Regards
test_metadata.knwf (72.8 KB)

Yves

4

This is defenitly a bug in KNIME AP 5.3.3
I created another ‘dummy’ workflow in KNIME AP 5.2.5:

image
image766×638 53.7 KB

deployed it to the same KNIME Server 4.17.1

image
image952×692 25.8 KB

Works …

5

Hi Yves,

Thanks for the quick follow-up. I was referring to your initial screenshot that seemingly didn’t show any description in the WebPortal.

I also believe that the new rich text is not rendered correctly. We are following up with development.

Kind regards
Marvin

6

Hi Yves,

KNIME Business Hub (the successor of KNIME Server) has a feature to support a nicer HTML view. Unfortunately, this feature isn’t available in KNIME Server, which is why workflows created in new clients using this feature now unfortunately look like this.
We’re looking to provide an update with the next KNIME Server version(s) that will strip out extra tags (this will be released as WEBP-972 in the changelog). An alternative would be to use the Classic UI when uploading workflows, which doesn’t use the HTML format.

Kind regards
Marvin

7

Internal ticket ID: WEBP-972
Summary: Workflow descriptions: incorrect formatting
Fix version(s): 4.17.2, 4.18.0